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National Law Journal

What's on the Agenda for the Supreme Court's 'Long Conference'?

The justices typically agree to hear more cases from this conference than any other during the term. Last term, the court granted certiorari, or review, in 12 cases during the week of its long conference.
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National Law Journal

'Error in Our Case Law': 9th Circuit Overturns False Claims Act First-to-File Precedent

"When our law is wrong, it is our duty to correct it," Judge Danielle Forrest wrote for the Ninth Circuit.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

The Leaked Chief Justice Roberts In-House Memo

If Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. doesn't identify who leaked his memo to The New York Times, he risks a continued inability to candidly communicate with his colleagues in any meaningful way or a public that continues to lack confidence in its highest court, the Law Journal's Joel Cohen writes.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

The Second Circuit in the Supreme Court

With the U.S. Supreme Court beginning its October Term 2024 in the coming weeks, we conduct our 40th annual review of the performance of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in the Supreme Court during the past term.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Supreme Court Allows Execution of Missouri Convict Over Local Prosecutor's Objections

"Tonight, Missouri will execute an innocent man, Marcellus 'Khaliifah' Williams," said Williams' attorney, Tricia Rojo Bushnell.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

US Supreme Court Doesn't Need Defenders—It Needs Reformers

In a recent editorial by the Wall Street Journal, a Big Law partner decries the toxic rhetoric aimed at the court as damaging public respect for the rule of law. But he ignores the much more toxic rhetoric against the justice system in general, Law Journal columnist Bennett L. Gershman writes.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

5th Circuit Scrutinizes Under-21 Handgun Sales Ban Based on Supreme Court Test

"I'm puzzled, because it seems to me that your whole argument is premised on some idea that Rahimi changed the landscape quite a bit… and, I think the whole court, actually on this point, said that Bruen is still the test," said Judge Jennifer Elrod.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Judge Sounds Alarm Over Persistent Circuit Split on 'Favorable Termination' Rule

The rule, established in the Supreme Court's 1994 decision 'Heck v. Humphrey,' bars people from bringing civil rights suits without first showing their conviction has been reversed, set aside or expunged. Circuits are divided over whether that rule applies to plaintiffs no longer in prison.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Commentary: Is Team Trump's Latest 'In Trouble' Lawyer a Candidate for a Pardon if He Wins Back the White House?

Several Trump and GOP attorneys have either pleaded guilty, been indicted or faced bar association discipline for their 2020 actions. The latest is Detroit-based Stefanie Lambert, a small-time, small-case, beer and peanuts lawyer, who was disqualified by U.S. Magistrate Judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya on Aug. 13, 2024, from having any role as a lawyer in a Dominion voting machine case.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Atlanta-Based Fearless Fund Ends Black-Only Entrepreneurial Grant Contest After Settling Civil Rights Lawsuit

"Race-exclusive programs like the one the Fearless Fund promoted are divisive and illegal," the American Alliance for Equal Rights stated. "Opening grant programs to all applicants, regardless of their race, is enshrined in our nation's civil rights laws and supported by significant majorities of all Americans."
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